Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03070 Mäḍirigiriya Pillar Inscription

Granting of immunities regarding land. Concerns a village and a hospital.

The inscription was discovered by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in August 1897 in the course exploring the ruins of Mäḍirigiriya in Tamankaḍuva, about forty-six miles east-south-east of Anurādhapura. It is engraved on four sides of a stone pillar and consists of 95 lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th and early 11th centuries A.D. The text is dated to the third year of king Abhā Salamevan and records the granting of certain immunities in respect of the land within the four boundaries of Mäḍiligiri-Ätveher-Piyan-gala in Rantisǟ in the district of Bidervatu-kuḷiya. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Kassapa V.

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Side A

(1) Okāvasin ba-

(2) ṭ jiyorā Siri La-

(3) kdivaṭ talāṭik

(4) vū siribar siripi-

(5) ḍ tamā yesen

(6) Dambdiv tala ek-

(7) heḷi koṭ Mayurā- (IoC: Madhurā)

(8) dunu Sirisan̆gbo-

(9) y (IoC: yi) Maharadhu De-

(10) bisevhu dā A-

(11) bhā Salamevan Ma-

(12) purmukā tunvan-

(13) [ne] .. .. .. .. .. .. [a-] (IoC: ney Navayä a-)

(14) [va] viseniy[ä e-] (IoC: va viseniyä E-)

(15) ktän sami[ye-]

(16) n vadāḷeyi[n]

(17) Pāṇ̆ḍi-rad Dāpu[ḷu]- (IoC: Pāṇ̆ḍrad)

(18) [vari]n ā Me[kā-]

(19) [ppar] Asa[ho-]

(20) lu Mihindu i[sā]

(21) Sumeragamu [Sā-]

(22) tā isā Mahā(le)

(23) Kasbā⸗raksa-

(24) maṇan varin ā

(25) Kuṇ̆ḍasalā Kit (IoC: Kuḍasalā Kitu)

(26) isā äp metu-

Side B

(1) vāk Radkol Sa-

(2) mdaruvamo vadā-

(3) ḷeyin avud

(4) Bidervatu-ku-

(5) ḷiyehi āvū Ra-

(6) ntisǟye hi pi-

(7) ṭi Mäḍiligiri-

(8) Ätveher Piya-

(9) ngalä satar sī-

(10) māyen ätuḷvū-

(11) tāk tänaṭ Ḍeru-

(12) vanǟ Dekamtän

(13) no vadnā i[sā]

(14) Perenāṭṭiya(m)

(15) no vadnā isā Du-

(16) numaḍula Melāt- (IoC: Melā- [line] -tti)

(17) tī no vadnā isā

(18) väriyan gam-

(19) gon gäl mivu-

(20) n no nan̆ganu isā

(21) Dunuvā Balat Raṭ-

(22) ladu Pasladdan vä

(23) dä isir no kara- (IoC: nokara-)

(24) nu isā Velä yut

(25) Pasdenā no vad-

(26) nā isā Man̆gdiva

Side C

[1] Piyadiva no vad-

[2] nā isā (Sändive) (IoC: Sändipe-)

[3] (de) Utukiri Bili-

[4] sāl Bilibat no

[5] nan̆ganu isā (koṭā)

[6] van gämin piṭat (IoC: vana)

[7] karavā ganut misä

[8] gam vädä no gan-

[9] nā isā Vedhal

[10] vässan gam vädä

[11] ä .. .. .. no (IoC: aniyāya no)

[12] karanu isā Velä- (IoC: kranu)

[13] yut Samdaruvan

[14] gamaṭ vädä raṭ .. (IoC: raṭ vī)

[15] no gannā isā [ma-]

[16] ḷa eḷu kukuḷan ve-

[17] her vedhalaṭ

[18] bahālanu koṭ E-

[19] ktän samiyen

[20] vä(ndä) vadāḷeyin Pā-

[21] ṇ̆ḍirad Dāpuḷu vari-

[22] n ā Mekāppar

[23] Asaholu Mihindu

[24] isā Sumergamu

[25] Sātā isā Mahā-

[26] le Kasbā⸗raksa- (IoC: Kasbā Raksa-)

Side D

[1] maṇan varin ā Ku-

[2] ṇ̆ḍasalā Kit ätu- (IoC: Ku[line]ḍasalā Kitu ...)

[3] ḷavä Bidervatu-kuḷi- (IoC: ḷvä)

[4] yehi āvū Ranti-

[5] sǟye pihiṭi Mäḍi- (IoC: Mäṅḍi-)

[6] ligiri veher Piya- (IoC: iligiri)

[7] ngalä satar sīmā-

[8] -yen ätuḷavū tāk

[9] tänaṭ vadāḷeyin a-

[10] vud Radkol Samdaru-

[11] vamo me Attāṇi

[12] perhär dunmaha-

[13] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (IoC: yi meyaṭ vädä)

[14] [ula]n̆ghanā kaḷa (IoC: me ula...)

[15] [ke]nek kavuḍu balu-

[16] vāhayi āro-

[17] gya siddhi